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It comes after the State broadcaster announced that the making of young people's programmes was to be outsourced to independent programme makers.

Last week RTE Channel Controller Adrian Lynch said the station will not be outsourcing Fair City.

But he added that the decision to close the children's television department was taken because of financial difficulties and the organisation’s obligation to outsource €40m of production to the independent sector.

He explained that the broadcaster had suffered losses due to the "Brexit effect."